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Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered COVID-19 patients in the study who developed mental health problems. The researchers from Britain's Oxford University also found significantly higher risks of dementia, a brain impairment condition.
"People have been worried that COVID-19 survivors will be at greater risk of mental health problems, and our findings ... show this to be likely," said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at Oxford.
Doctors and scientists around the world urgently need to investigate the causes and identify new treatments for mental illness after COVID-19, Harrison said.
"(Health) services need to be ready to provide care, especially since our results are likely to be underestimates (of the number of psychiatric patients)," he added.
The study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, analysed electronic health records of 69 million people in the United States, including more than 62,000 cases of COVID-19. The findings are likely to be the same for those afflicted by COVID-19 worldwide, the researchers said
In the three months following testing positive for COVID-19, 1 in 5 survivors were recorded as having a first time diagnosis of anxiety, depression or insomnia. This was about twice as likely as for other groups of patients in the same period, the researchers said.
The study also found that people with a pre-existing mental illness were 65% more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those without.
Mental health specialists not directly involved with the study said its findings add to growing evidence that COVID-19 can affect the brain and mind, increasing the risk of a range of psychiatric illnesses.
"This is likely due to a combination of the psychological stressors associated with this particular pandemic and the physical effects of the illness," said Michael Bloomfield, a consultant psychiatrist at University College London.
Simon Wessely, regius professor of psychiatry at King's College London, said the finding that those with mental health disorders are also at higher risk of getting COVID-19 echoed similar findings in previous infectious disease outbreaks.
"COVID-19 affects the central nervous system, and so might directly increase subsequent disorders. But this research confirms that is not the whole story, and that this risk is increased by previous ill health," he said.
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the UK mental health charity SANE, said the study echoed her charity's experience during the pandemic.
"Our helpline is dealing with an increasing number of first-time callers who are being triggered into mental health problems, as well as those who are relapsing because their fear and anxiety have become intolerable," she said.
Comment: This study has the hallmarks of fear-mongering to entice a population already fed-up with lockdowns into cowering in their homes to avoid contracting the illness. Odd that no mention is made of the surge in mental illness in the population overall due to the lockdowns, from the corresponding losses of income as well as connections with family and friends. In addition, there is evidence that 'science' has been co-opted to favor results that are in keeping with official narratives, and rulers are adamant that the Covid hysteria continue until a vaccine is developed.
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Reader Comments
R.C.
The materialist (authoritarian) mind insists on the manufacture of a 'never-ending stream of graven images' as the means to determine (or to prove) reality.
But this is not reality.
It is a divorce from reality.
A messy one.
ned,
OUT
Those conditions come from the lockdown, not the alleged virus.
Q: (L) Okay, moving along. Next question:
Has this whole situation/reaction/measures in so many countries been planned?
(L) In other words, I think they are asking was it all planned in advance?
A: No, but plans along similar lines were activated to take advantage of opportunity.
Q: (Joe) Was this at the level of the World Health Organization? Or... What body was involved in implementing these plans?
A: Secret consortium of which the WHO is just a tool.
Q: (L) Okay. Another person asks:
Where is the safest place for us to be during the existing and upcoming turmoil?
A: Any place is safe to the knowledgeable person. Do you have the energy and resources to change?
Q: (L) And I guess it also comes down to if you have knowledge and you're in a high-stress environment, you can be safe but it takes a lot of energy for that, too. If you would like to reduce your stress and energy expenditure or if you NEED to reduce them, then you should make changes?
A: Yes
Q: (L) Okay, so...
(Joe) The most obvious effect of these measures that they're putting in place is a kind of pseudo-totalitarian lock down essentially. Can we assume that that was one of the agendas: to impose those lock downs on people?
A: Yes, total control. But it was not necessarily envisioned as lock down in this way.
Q: (Joe) It kinda got beyond their...
(L) What changed their...
(Andromeda) Approach?
(Joe) "But it was not necessarily envisioned as lock down in this way."
(Pierre) How was it envisioned initially?
A: Control. But a special factor entered. We are aware of your earlier discussions and questions, so perhaps we can explain.
Q: (L) I think this is gonna be a long one... Okay, let me light a cigarette before this starts.
[ . . . ]
A: The virus did not appear first in China. There were experiments at Fort Detrick regarding the creation of a vaccine that would make humans more controllable. This vaccine had unexpected effects and in some cases did the opposite of what was intended. The strain escaped into a population and further mutated. Indeed it was carried to China by US soldiers. China soon knew the type and origin and launched a massive campaign to control the situation. This was seen by Western powers as a good model to follow with additional add-on factors. In the meantime further mutations have occurred, some engineered via STO forces by virtue of the virus taking hold in certain persons whose spiritual force was able to direct the progression. At this point, there are two major strains. The elite need to stop the spread of that which they "created".
[The above answer took 12 minutes and 38 seconds with 2 short arm-resting breaks!]
Q: (L) So they need to stop that which they have created because in some cases, it does the opposite of what they wanted it to do?
A: Yes and this is the interesting factor: The virus can change DNA making individuals more susceptible to cosmic information of the STO variety. It can also enhance and activate long suppressed codons of a beneficial nature. So you can see why they are so desperate to halt the spread.
Q: (L) If they're so desperate to halt the spread, they’re not testing anyone! They're assuming everyone is infected... Well, I guess that's why they're locking everyone down. That's why it's a lock down.
(Andromeda) They really don't want people to spread it. They're really afraid.
Real virus in a couple of years, oh man...? ? Sorry, I must have missed something. Can you go back and pull from the linked session the text you refer to pls?
Q: (L) Is it likely that there is going to be at some point a REAL plague or pandemic?
A: Yes
Q: (Joe) In the next 2 months?
A: No
Q: (Andromeda) In the next 2 years?
A: Yes
Q: (L) Something like the Black Death would really do a number on the elite, wouldn't it?
(Chu) But it's likely that after this, people are going to think that everything is going back to normal and their systems will be very weak. And then the real deal hits.
One of the points of the Ra Material that is identical to what the Cs have said was the statement that the motivation of the "aliens" who abduct and probe and examine humans, and, for the most part, are those sighted by many people the world over, is to conquer the Earth and enslave its people. Ra said that the aliens sought out, specifically, people who were influential in some way so as to subvert them for their own use; this use being to enslave even more people.The Ra material is based on earlier contact with consciousness very like, if not the same as, the Cs, but the format is somewhat cumbersome. The material is seen at this [Link] and again I've pulled it all down and will panelbeat it into one large bookmarked PDF that I'll send first to its authors for approval, as they're understandably protective of their work.
Ra: [The purpose of the Orion STS] is conquest... their objective is to locate certain [individuals] who vibrate in resonance with their own [frequencies], then to [use these contactees to] enslave the [masses].
The obvious inference is, of course, that our political leaders, the heads of state, industry, finance, and so forth are likely targets for this contact. What Ra did not say, but which I also inferred from the above, was that many, if not most, of the "experiencers" and "contactees" who have come forward with their versions of the alien reality are being cleverly used as "Pied Pipers" to lead humanity into enslavement.
Just exactly how this is done was described:
Ra: ...[The Orion STS who come to this planet for mind control purposes] follow the Law of One, observing free will. Contact is made with those who call. Those then . . . act . . . to disseminate the attitudes and philosophy of . . . Service to Self. These become the elite. Through these, the attempt begins to create a condition whereby the remainder of the planetary entities are enslaved by their free will.
This last remark by Ra is crucial. We have followed a logical progression in an attempt to demonstrate that the present New Age- Human Potential movement is a product of COINTELPRO. The next logical step to take in considering this possibility, is to stop, look, listen, and think with a hammer about every idea that is accepted as true or whether or not it promotes Free Will, or might be the easy downhill slide into full blown STS.
Me ? I'm b-a-a-a-d to try to cook up on the Bar-Bee, lean, stringy and tough like old shoe leather, nothin' succulent goin' on at all, and I'd leave a bad taste in an STS mouth, not that they'd much care, and bad breath as well; about which they'd care even less !
If however one is the one-off in my presently vacant Main Squeeze Department things are rather different :-)
Frank's RedHot is known for its national television ad campaign depicting an irreverent elderly woman named Ethel explaining her recipes for various foods; usually in front of a prestigious figure (e.g., the Queen), she'd quip, "I put that s*ht on everything "
This is only Québec's blackhole!!
I cant count enough to add the numbers of all provinces... and then the Fed.🙈
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n.b. you re luck changes as of mid-December!!
RC
Check the comments here:
No respite for central Vietnam from landslides, flooding as 12th storm hits - at least 235 people killed or missing since October
Heavy rains brought by Storm Etau over the past three days have caused landslides and severe flooding in central provinces, disrupting traffic and badly affecting people's lives. In Quang Ngai,...RC
"I was kind of trying to stay far away, because obviously, it was a massive group of people not social distancing"
You fucking soy boy twat.
"People have been worried that COVID-19 survivors will be at greater risk of mental health problems, and our findings ... show this to be likely,"
Umm, I'm always suspect of an ellipsis in the middle of an assertion such as this.
As much as I might want to believe that snip was all there was to it, the fact is that it wasn't; but the truth of the matter will remain for me a mystery because I can live with that loose end and I'm not about to dig for it.
Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days.Because you've told them they've been walking around putting everyone's lives in danger? Because they fear being taken from their family and locked in quarantine for however long you want? Because their friends and family and neighbours are hysterical? Because they think they just survive a severe life threatening illness that's dropping millions like flies and now suffer survivors guit?
The study also found that people with a pre-existing mental illness were 65% more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those without.Because they had the sniffles and paniced and went to get 'tested'?
Because their heightened anxiety has had them locked indoors without sunlight and fresh air, weakening their immune system? Because they are on a ton of unnecessary medications wreaking their immune system?
Because they had the sniffles and panicked and went to get 'tested'?Excellent points!
Because their heightened anxiety has had them locked indoors without sunlight and fresh air, weakening their immune system? Because they are on a ton of unnecessary medications wreaking their immune system?
RC
However... observing what hysteria I see around me and knowing many former functioning people who are now completely terrorized and dysfunctional..... I've got to wonder if they all shouldn't just take the needle for mental reasons. Assuming whatever the deleterious effects are don't kill them immediately, they'll likely be better off in the short term at least.
Of course the game will then shift to mandatory hypodermic rape for the handful of us who would rather kill the lot of the needlers....
But I just don't see any other way for these terrified masked idiots (the ones who choose to mask) to ever function again. It's a cult and only mana from their God of Pfizer can likely cure them....
To anyone owning a triple digit IQ a vaccine for this cold virus is of course completely insane...I am beyond 50 now, and worked most of my life in engineering. Supposedly manned with people in the mentioned IQ range.
But as my experience showed, common sense is totally unrelated to what is nowadays called IQ.
It increasingly looks like they will use Covid as an excuse to force a whole bunch of new Abnormal rules on everyone and take away the rights of people more and more.
It's back to 24x7 fear porn cranked to 11...
I couldn't watch the lies for more than 15 minutes.
But props to the CIA's efforts. Full court press.. If someone has this garbage playing in the background.... God help them turn it off!
DeliciousTears I'm impressed you managed to last 15 minutes ... Did you have a sick bucket next to you?It was actually really hard to not smash something.... And 15 minutes was likely an exaggeration....
R.C.
It's really crazy.
I live with people who work in local ER's and its no more busy than it usually is during flu season... Check out Lincoln Karim on nsatube as well... He's been our eyes on the ground in NYC since the beginning. Nothing going on there either above and beyond normal flu season....
For now. Worse things to come.
Worse things to come.What have you seen about the pending 'Dark Winter' ? From what I've seen I tentatively conclude they are planning to shut down the internet, destroy as much infrastructure and data in the process as possible, i.e. Cloud Backups, then offer their Magic, Infinite Money Solution where they buy all your debt in return for title to all your stuff and set you up as a mere renter forevermore.
I at least maintain air-gapped back ups and will try to set up something like OPNsense as seen for DIY'ers at this [Link] and for those who want to buy pre-built an this [Link] and this [Link] . A PDF on it all is seen at this [Link] .
A week or so back there was mention of another, similar platform but I didn't keep the URL, I think it was mentioned by either 'CoffeeTalk' or 'Delicious Tears'. If any one can post I'd like to see it as I have surplus machine I bought some time back for this very purpose but using a Linux-base, Sophos implementation.
Here's another [Link] on Ice Age Farmer
What have you seen about the pending 'Dark Winter' ? From what I've seen I tentatively conclude they are planning to shut down the internet, destroy as much infrastructure and data in the process as possible ...I doubt that, at least for the destructive part. The Western society is highly inter-related and inter-dependant. If they do this, especially in the winter, there will be not so much people left for the Great New Post-Reset World. The largest agglomerations with the most people are the most dependant.
Not that I think they have moral qualms - but not much money to make. And what is "power" without anybody to rule over ...
I guess ...
You see, if one desires to create a new race, what better way than to mass hybridize, then mass reincarnate. Especially when the host species is so forever ignorant, controlled, and anthropocentric. What a lovely environment for total destruction and conquest and replacement... see? - Interesting, as despite all efforts by 4th through 6th density STO, this "veil remains unbroken."As I understand it, this is the intent of 'inbound' 4D STS
Most people would say: "Destroy all viruses" unaware of the fact that viruses are not necessarily 'deadly' nor 'evil', but rather, part of the system. (I wasn't certain of that, so I looked it up. I found an article dated 11/2019 entitled "Not All Viruses Are Bad For You. Here Are Some That Can Have a Protective Effect")*
Thus, there might be the silver lining behind the overall C-1984 BS - at least I know more about virology.
*Interestingly, the image it has (I don't know if that image might have been changed from 2019 to now, though) is of a CV!
[Link]
What I'd say to Prince Prick is "You first."
RC
Thus, there might be the silver lining behind the overall C-1984 BS - at least I know more about virology.All joking aside, I think (or, I am pretty sure) there is no epidemic. They just re-named the annual flu seasons and instilled deadly fear in the sheeple. Thus, the Covid-1984 drama can be dragged on as long as "they" wish. I have seen for myself, it is almost impossible to spring people out of their fear.
Further, I heavily doubt that viruses as such exist at all. Just research exosome. The look and behave identical, and are produced by the body. And scientists cannot differ between the both. What conclusion suggests itself here ...
.. it is called terrain theory.
Rowan CocoanCodis- Yes, that's my take too. Germ theory is a total fraud, and everything we have been told about viruses is a lie. There's tons of fraud in virology. I agree with you on exosomes--makes more sense.Thus, there might be the silver lining behind the overall C-1984 BS - at least I know more about virology.All joking aside, I think (or, I am pretty sure) there is no epidemic. They just re-named the annual flu seasons and instilled deadly fear in the sheeple. Thus, the Covid-1984 drama can be dragged on as long as "they" wish. I have seen for myself, it is almost impossible to spring people out of their fear.
Further, I heavily doubt that viruses as such exist at all. Just research exosome. The look and behave identical, and are produced by the body. And scientists cannot differ between the both. What conclusion suggests itself here ...
.. it is called terrain theory.
It's kind of mind-blowing when you realize they are in the process of enslaving humanity (unless we get lucky and win) based on the bogus germ theory and that they got all of their power from printing money out of thin air.
It's kind of mind-blowing when you realize they are in the process of enslaving humanity (unless we get lucky and win) based on the bogus germ theory and that they got all of their power from printing money out of thin air.You may go, Grasshopper...
R.C.
My only question is, what is causing the flu seasons every year ? It might have to do with temperature differentials, or the general health condition of the population.
As a general note, a real scientist (or critical thinker) is aware that correlation does not equal causation. Else we would need to kill Nicolas Cage ... [Link]
Coincidentally, a nice article about a brain-less rat was published here today. She seemed almost normal - until cognitive functionality was required ...
If snakes were intelligent, would they strive to find a cure for shedding skins?
Is the annual flu even an illness ... maybe it's just a cleansing process the body goes through, some people cannot even wait until "flu" season and have hay fever insteadThat might be true - but what actually triggers it ? The temperature differential ? Sun cycle / geomagnetism ?
Just asking, I don't know.
MindMatters: The Impenetrable Fortress of Thoughtitude: When Belief Trumps Truth
We all have belief systems, maps to reality that inform our perspectives and help us form the bedrock values we have about ourselves, others, and the world at large. This means thoughts on...Such as this:
s wurde ja auch spekuliert das das bloß war um zu unterbinden das er schlecht über die corona Politik spricht das war in unsere Stadt auch so vor ein paar Wochen war eine Zusammenkunft weil beitrege erhoben werden sollten und man wollte dagegen vorgehen alles war regelkonform dann kam die Polizei und hat es wegen "corona Schutz verboten" in meinen Augen wird corona oft als Ausrede benutzt denke ich
Which ogle translates as:
I was also speculated that it was only to prevent him from speaking badly about the corona policy that was also in our city a few weeks ago there was a meeting because contributions should be raised and one wanted to take action against everything was in accordance with the rules then came Police and have forbidden it because of "corona protection" in my eyes, corona is often used as an excuse I thinkDunca? Thank you! RC
Rowan Cocoan One of the recent conclusions is, the so-called Spanish Flu in 1918 was not infectious either. Strange, isn't it ?Codis- I've heard some say that the flu is simply a detox that the body goes through when it needs to.
My only question is, what is causing the flu seasons every year ? It might have to do with temperature differentials, or the general health condition of the population.
As a general note, a real scientist (or critical thinker) is aware that correlation does not equal causation. Else we would need to kill Nicolas Cage ... [Link]
Here's an interesting take on the flu: " Here’s a quote by Dr. Larry Palevsky regarding flu vaccines: “When people say they got the flu vaccine and got the flu anyway, no, they got poisoned. And, the body’s response to being poisoned is to get sick to remove the poisons because you were injected with poison.” (sorry I lost the link where I found it)
More on Dr. Palevsky [Link]
MindMatters: The Impenetrable Fortress of Thoughtitude: When Belief Trumps Truth
We all have belief systems, maps to reality that inform our perspectives and help us form the bedrock values we have about ourselves, others, and the world at large. This means thoughts on...RC
I've sampled some of the world's finest bugs from H1N1 to Norovoris to Dengue(105 fever... peed on myself!), chicken pox, and 1000 other unknown URI's.
Now I fully agree covid1984 is complete overhyped bullshit but saying viri don't exist doesn't help our case to bring some sanity back to the planet.
ffs